Chapter 5. The abstraction of events in narrative and memory

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 2. Language, abstract and less abstract 7
5. Chapter 3. Cognitive linguistics 29
6. Chapter 4. Abstraction, metaphor and cultural context 39
7. Chapter 5. The abstraction of events in narrative and memory 53
8. Chapter 6. Pre-linguistic abstraction and projection 73
9. Chapter 7. The feel of things 85
10. Chapter 8. Neurological underpinnings 95
11. Chapter 9. Abstraction at work 111
12. Chapter 10. The philosophical approach 123
13. Chapter 11. Abstraction all the way up 149
14. References 175
15. Name index 185
16. Subject index 189